CCT222H5 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Facebook, Canada, Amplitude Modulation
20 Nov 2018
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Friday, september 7, 2018 | 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Tas: rebecca noone, grayson lee, julian posada (look on quercus for emails) Today"s agenda: introduction to course themes and topics, brief visit from blackwood gallery/work of wind, important notes about the syllabus, assignments, policies. Political economy - government, everyday life, power, politics, money, relationship between politics, the state, and the economy. In cct, taking all of ideas and applying them to the world of communication, and social media, including censorship of social media. Things associated with iphone - innovation, expensive, trendy, apple, multi-purpose communications device, popular, addictive, connections, speed. Political economist step back from the object and think about context, social relations, and power relations it is enmeshed in, and the effects it has on this thing and on the world. Apple sold 260 million dollars iphones last year alone - 229 billion dollars. Trickles up to a small group of shareholders.
